The large majority of customers on Google Cloud have migrated using a “lift and shift” strategy to simply move their applications to Google Cloud. They often are using the console to manage their systems operations and hosting their applications on a self-managed fleet of Compute Engine virtual machines.

This course uses the example of a simple 3-tier web application which has recently been migrated to virtual machines on Google Cloud. You will walk through the process of modernizing this application by implementing logging and monitoring using Cloud Operations, tightening security policies by using custom service accounts, leveraging tagging for managing and cataloging resources, enforcing compliance policies at the project and organization level, managing OS images and patching for their virtual machines, and automating deployment of infrastructure using Terraform. Finally, you will walk through the process of migrating your application to a Google Kubernetes Engine cluster while following best practices and minimizing downtime for your currently running applications.

Objectives

• Understand the pillars of the Google Cloud Architecture Framework, focusing on the pillar of Operational Excellence
• Implement logging and monitoring for your applications following Google Cloud best practices
• Follow the principle of least privilege by replacing default service accounts with purpose-built service accounts for your application Create project-level and organization-level polices to enforce compliance with company policies
• Manage and patch OS images and enforce compliance using VM Manager
• Automate deployment of infrastructure using tools such as Terraform
• Prepare and migrate your application to managed services such as Google Kubernetes Engine
• Learn more about next steps to continue modernizing your applications using cloud native technologies

Audience 

SysOps professionals looking to implement best practices to modernize the infrastructure powering their applications.

Prerequisites

Students should have completed the “Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure” and “Architecting with Google Compute Engine” courses or have equivalent Google Cloud experience. Familiarity with shell scripting in Linux and containers is also recommended.